Multiprocessing: really needed?

[FAMILIAR-project]

there is a function run_with_timeout_partial
https://github.com/FAMILIAR-project/usampling-exp/blob/master/usampling-experiments.py#L59-L106
that relies on multiprocessing

Is it really needed?

for some unclear reasons (and I've spent the whole day on this), the python crashes (with no error message of course) when importing multiprocessing. I really don't know why and I will investigate on IGRIDA side (there are many virtualization layers and maybe multiprocessing is not handled with some nodes of the grid).

Meanwhile, I'm wondering whether a workaround could be to not depend on this multiprocessing. If it's not possible, no problem